About Dr. Nick Fitterman
Nick Fitterman, MD, MACP, SFHM Executive Director Huntington Hospital Northwell Health (formerly North Shore-LIJ) Professor of Medicine, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine.
Dr. Fitterman attended SUNY Stony Brook for his undergraduate education in Biochemistry (1980-84). He obtained his medical degree at the SUNY Medical School in Brooklyn (Downstate- 1984-88). He then completed a residency in Internal Medicine and a Chief Residency at the Stony Brook University Hospital (1988-1992).
Dr. Fitterman founded the Huntington Hospital HMG in 2006. He has served as director of the department and led initiatives that have resulted in statistically significant decreases in length of stay, mortality, and a decrease in readmissions with an increase in patient satisfaction. He was appointed Chief of Staff in 2009.
He came to Huntington Hospital after 14 years in private practice, the last 3 of which he also served as medical director of a 40 physician multispecialty group in Huntington.
Dr. Fitterman has held leadership positions in national societies (District President, state council member, Governor of NYACP; Chapter President SHM) and was recognized on the Honor Roll of Top Hospitalists in 2008.
Dr. Fitterman has co-authored over 30 publications in peer reviewed journals; is a Master of the ACP and a senior fellow of the SHM. He also served as Chair of the test writing committee of the ABIM.
Dr. Fitterman served as co-chair of the American College of Physicians Clinical Guidelines Committee. This committee promulgates evidence based guidelines for Internal Medicine.
Dr. Fitterman has been appointed Associate Professor of Medicine in the newly founded Hofstra University School of Medicine and participated in supervising the introduction to the clinical experience outpatient initiative of the school.
In April 2012 he accepted a position as Medical Director of Group Health Management for the North Shore Long Island Jewish Health Care System. Through 2013 most of these efforts focused on the NYS Medicaid population via the development of a Health Home.
In May of 2013 Northwell created a Hospital Medicine service line. Dr. Fitterman was appointed Vice Chair of this service line, overseeing the 15 Hospital Medicine programs providing services across Northwell Health system.
In October 2018 he was appointed the Executive Director of Huntington Hospital.